Today is Daddy Day Care around here. Some days we have grandiose plans, other days we don’t. Today is one of the latter. I am lying on the couch trying to get a catch up snooze from a busy weekend of markets, but Tom is playing carparks on my belly. The noise he makes as […]

With baby number two on the way, my food cravings are all over the place. Sometimes it’s all about sweet, sometmes it’s all about savoury and at the moment it’s all about carbs! This dish wins on both the flavour and filling fronts. Ingredients: 2 smoked chicken breast fillets, thinly sliced 250g fresh linguine (freeze the […]

To get the best results, it’s important to choose the right cut for what you’re making. Hands up anyone who’s used fillet for a slow cooking casserole and ended up with mince? Or stir-fried gravy beef and still been chewing it hours later? Ok, maybe that’s an extreme example, but you get my point. Here’s […]

Well Christmas is literally just around the corner now and I wanted to take a moment out from packing Hams and Turkeys to thank all of you for your support this year. Once again it’s been a big year for us – new staff, new markets, and new premises. None of our success would have […]

With the start of summer just around the corner, we need to remember the importance of how we transport and store perishable goods, such as meat. There’s a saying in the food service industry: “Keep cold foods cold, and hot foods hot”. Bacteria thrive between 5°C and 60°C, a range of temperatures that’s known as […]

There has been some talk in the media and at the markets recently about Free Range and exactly how ‘free’ is the ‘range’. When we first started the business and we were thinking of a name, we sent out a sample of our top five names to family and friends. The Free Range Butcher was […]

This recipe requires a bit of preparation but once it’s in the oven it’s all done, and the result is beautiful. Ingredients: 1 free range chicken 3 oranges 100g butter Bunch of tarragon 5 tbsp of honey 300ml red wine Method: Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Zest the oranges and juice two of them (make […]

This ‘secret’ recipe was given to us by Mrs Chu, one of our regular customers at the farmers market. According to Mrs Chu this is a basic Chinese marinade and has multiple uses. It’s great for marinating chicken pieces to be used in a noodle dish or for a pork neck fillet. The marinade will keep in […]